The Challenge of Leading an Ethical and Successful Organization

The Challenge of Leading an Ethical and Successful Organization emphasizes the importance of ethical leadership in achieving business success. It challenges the notion that ethical decisions can be made solely based on legal considerations and provides practical strategies for establishing ethical baselines and navigating ethical dilemmas.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 173 pages
Publication date: 21 November 2022
Publisher: De Gruyter

The pursuit of ethical and successful outcomes is a complex and demanding task, as the rewards of unethical behavior often outweigh the consequences. This book delves into the challenges faced by leaders who aim to establish ethical and successful organizations, emphasizing the importance of relying on more than just legal frameworks and organizational structures to make moral business decisions.

The authors explore why making ethical business decisions is more complex than commonly perceived, highlighting the various contextual, circumstantial, and other challenges that hinder ethical behavior, such as misleading rhetoric, inappropriate role models, cognitive dissonance, and motivated forgetting. They argue that individuals must establish ethical baselines that they will not deviate from when making decisions and provide systematic approaches to achieving this.

The Challenge of Leading an Ethical and Successful Organization offers valuable insights and strategies for navigating ethical dilemmas effectively. It emphasizes the importance of identifying potential areas of ethical conflict in advance, assessing the potential costs and consequences of such conflicts, and providing leaders with a practical ethical framework that enables them to reconcile ethics with business success. This book is a must-read for professionals, consultants, and academics interested in the ethics of leadership and management.

Weight: 301g
Dimension: 240 x 170 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9783110780819